British Watercolours 1750-1900: The Landscape Genre

The careers of three early English watercolour artists illustrate the driving forces behind the development of watercolour painting in the 1750s, Paul & Thomas Sandby, and Thomas Malton II.

  • Landscape, probably in the Highlands, with a group of five men carrying out a survey; one wearing a tricorn hat, the others wearing tam-o'-shanters.



    Paul Sandby
    1750
    Etching
    Museum no. E.4345-1902

  • A Country House and Park



    Thomas Malton
    1779
    Watercolour
    Museum no. P.8-1951

  • Windsor Terrass [sic] looking Westward



    Print
    Paul Sandby
    1776
    Aquatint on paper
    Museum no. E.55-1891

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